BOOKS RELEGATED TO THE DUMP

 #NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA    #NO WAY ESEA

KEEP CALLING (202-224-3121) AND EMAILING YOUR SENATORS  AND REPRESENTATIVES!!!    


S1177 (the Reauthorization of  ESEA...the old No Child Left Behind Act)  is a combination of  Republican Congressman John Kline's  HR5 Student Success Act and  Republican Senator Lamar Alexander's Every Child Achieves Act 2015 (S1177)     



 You, members of Grassroots America, killed HR5 last February.  You can  kill its companion bill S1177, which is coming up for a full vote in the Senate any day now.

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 "It is not possible for single teachers to create such schools. It really takes a community, or at least a whole faculty, and it takes the kind of leadership that is capable of creating such a community inside the school. It is a tall order, but there are enough such schools all around us to give us the confidence that it can be done. Once again, we find that the moral driver of our work is not the techniques of teaching reading. It is our belief in our students and their belief in themselves." 
Education Week

Is it possible the intellectuals writing these articles, those who have caused the deliberate dumbing down of our teachers and children really don't  understand the reason and/or cure for the problems they lament endlessly?  Does it really take a community to solve these children's problems, or does it take very simply a mom or dad, or one concerned individual (teacher) who loves and cares for that child enough to teach him/her to read?   Samuel Blumenfeld's Alpha Phonics www.howtotutor.com  would be a good place to start, backed up by a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

The following quote is adequate proof that reading, which more than anything else gives a child  self confidence...   and the ability to sort out the many vagaries of life as an individual, not as member of the community collective, to be brainwashed and trained for the global economy.... has been deliberately relegated to the dust bin of history.

 

3D, page 216.  In a Washington Post article dated August 1, 1977, entitled “Competency Tests Set in 26 Schools,” Thomas Sticht—who was later named to U.S. Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole’s
Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)—was also mentioned as an
associate director at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at the time mastery learning
was implemented in the D.C. schools. The Post article quoted Sticht extensively, verifying that
he and Spady were both deeply involved in the implementation of the new mastery learning [Skinnerian/OBE, ed] curriculum.  Later, in 1987, The Washington Post again paraphrased Sticht as follows:

 

Many companies have moved operations to places with cheap, relatively poorly educated labor. What may be crucial, they say, is the dependability of a labor force and how well it can be managed and trained, not it's general education level, although a small cadre of highly educated creative people is essential to innovation and growth. Ending discrimination and changing values are probably more important than reading in moving low income families into the middle class.

 

REPEAT: ENDING DISCRIMINATION AND CHANGING VALUES ARE PROBABLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN READING

Related Link:
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of the Village